Illegal immigrants who try to apply for driver's licenses in Erie and Niagara counties will be subject to arrest - and deportation - under a plan being developed by the two county clerks and law enforcement officials.
The move is the latest - and potentially most serious - challenge to Gov. Eliot L. Spitzer's new policy to permit illegal immigrants to obtain driver's licenses if they possess a valid foreign passport and other identification.
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"We didn't ask to be put in this situation, but this is the proper recourse," said Hochul, a Democrat who was appointed to her post earlier this year by Spitzer after her predecessor, David Swarts, was named commissioner of motor vehicles.
What a mess.
